The time may finally be right to bring the BBC's gritty space opera
Blake's 7 back to television. British satellite network Sky One has ordered two 60-minute TV movies, for a possible "event series," BBC News reported. (I'm guessing "event series" means the occasional one-off TV movie or special.) The production company that owns the rights to the 1970s show about rebels fighting a totalitarian space empire tried to make a new version five years ago, but it crashed and burned. Now, with the
Battlestar Galactica reboot winning so much acclaim, it may be the perfect time for NewBlake.
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